Others have, surprisingly enough :) , had this discussion before; http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/alt/alt-table.html
Regards, mkyed On 10-Sep-99 Darren Benham wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 12:54:19AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:33:44PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: >> > I disagree... >> >> How is this a matter of opinion? > Putting ALT tags, empty alt tags, no alt tags, filled alt tags won't > cause pages not to load... > >> >> > empty alt tags are MORE evil than no alt tag at all. >> >> There are no alt tags. >> >> The alt attribute is mandatory on the img tag. It is perfectly OK to >> specify an empty alt attribute. > OK in whose book? It is NOT ok in my book, period. > >> >> What important or interesting information does a logo carry that is relevant >> to all Debian pages? > > None, that's the point. If you see an image w/o any description (like swirl > or logo) you don't know, for sure, if that logo is something you want or > should > look at. All you know is it's "something" With a description, you can > think, > Oh... the logo, I don't need to see that and skip it... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
